AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Abdul El-Sayed pushed a false hate crime narrative in 2012 — and never corrected the record
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed published an essay blaming the murder of an Iraqi refugee on anti-Muslim bigotry, even after police warned the case wasn't a hate crime, and her husband was later convicted of killing her. In March 2012, Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi refugee and mother of five, was bludgeoned with a […] The post Abdul El-Sayed pushed a false hate crime narrative in 2012 — and never corrected the record appeared first on American Almanac .
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed published an essay blaming the murder of an Iraqi refugee on anti-Muslim bigotry, even after police warned the case wasn't a hate crime, and her husband was later convicted of killing her. In March 2012, Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi refugee and mother of five, was bludgeoned with a tire iron at her home in El Cajon, California. A handwritten note left at the scene read, "Go back to your country, you terrorist." Within days, activists and commentators seized on the killing as proof of rising anti-Muslim hatred in America. El-Sayed was among the loudest voices. On March 28, 2012, one week after Alawadi's death, El-Sayed published an essay in Mic, a liberal digital outlet, tying her…Open